Quotes About Elegance

France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.

Mr. Penfound's Two Burglars, Midnight at the Grand Babylon, The Police Station, The Adventure of the Prima Donna, The Episode in Room 222, Saturday to Monday, A Dinner at the Louvre

The simplest solution is always best.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

He slipped an emerald snake ring from his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more highly," said Holmes.

A courtesan, a pilgrim, a princess, and a bullfighter.

tall evergreens whose long and lush boughs were coated with mineral dust, like elegant ladies wearing too much face powder.

luxuriant black cascade, and against the graceful folds of her ivory

Mrs Pargeter had that rare quality in any surroundings of being always conspicuous, but never out of place.

A work of art like this,' he tells one of the journalists, 'demands that the life lived in it be a work of art as well. I am certain that Viktor Landauer and his beautiful wife will do the place justice.

No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.

Kocham ró?e; sÄ… kwiatami uroczystymi, które umierajÄ…, nie wiednÄ…c, w ukÅ'onie.

We are ghosts in Victorian gowns, lilac apparitions with parasols…

Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life.

All that is beautiful can only be felt.

God's beauty is better by far than anything that comes out of a jar..

See beauty everywhere, and let your heart dance with it.

Simplicity is the key to happiness.

To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond!

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.